# Eka Robotics: mobile robotics company

Canonical ID: `e3505269-e0d1-4d36-9a89-420514375b4f`

## Key facts

- **Founded:** 2025
- **HQ:** Cambridge, MA, USA
- **Founders:** [Pulkit Agrawal](/people/pulkit-agrawal.md) (MIT), [Tuomas Haarnoja](/people/tuomas-haarnoja.md) (ex-Google DeepMind)
- **Funding:** USD 11M Seed (2026) — [E14 Fund](/investors/e14-fund.md), [Harper Court Ventures](/investors/harper-court-ventures.md), [MFV Partners](/investors/mfv-partners.md), [Obvious Ventures](/investors/obvious-ventures.md), [Sabrina Hahn](/investors/sabrina-hahn.md) ([see investors](/investors.md))
- **Focus:** Self-supervised learning for robotic manipulation
- **Core technology:** Vision-Force-Action (VFA) model
- **Stealth exit:** April 29, 2026
- **Advisory board:** Rodney Brooks (iRobot, ReThink Robotics founder)
- **Team provenance:** MIT, Berkeley, Harvard, CMU, DeepMind, Microsoft, Boston Dynamics
- **Approach:** Sim-to-real reinforcement learning, no human imitation data
- **Prior company (Pulkit Agrawal):** Co-founded SafelyYou Inc. (fall prevention technology)

- **Slug:** eka-robotics
- **Status:** active
- **Founded:** 2025
- **HQ:** Cambridge, MA, USA
- **Category:** [Warehouse & Logistics Robotics](/amr)

## Models

- [Eka Robotic Gripper](/models/eka-robotic-gripper.md) (amr) (id: `330aa8a9-2241-4910-8a96-71718543c675`)

## Current leadership (2)

- [Pulkit Agrawal](/people/pulkit-agrawal.md) Co-founder & CEO (secondary-verified)
- [Tuomas Haarnoja](/people/tuomas-haarnoja.md) Co-founder & CTO (secondary-verified)

## Supplies to

_No verified supply relationships on file. Supply-chain coverage is being added across the registry; check back as the seed populates this company's outbound edges._

_Outbound supply edges. Each appears when verified with at least two strong sources. Sources are append-only; corrections add new sources rather than rewrite history._

## Common questions

### What is Eka Robotics?

Eka Robotics is a Cambridge, MA-based physical AI startup building general-purpose robotic intelligence through its [Vision-Force-Action (VFA)](https://ekarobotics.com) foundation model. Founded by MIT professor Pulkit Agrawal and former Google DeepMind researcher Tuomas Haarnoja, the company exited stealth in April 2026 with a focus on contact-rich dexterity tasks — treating force as the native language of the physical world rather than relying on vision-language-action models.

### What does Eka Robotics make?

Eka Robotics has 1 robot model on the DEPLOY registry: Eka Robotic Gripper (Eka Robotics builds physical robots).

### Where is Eka Robotics headquartered?

Eka Robotics is headquartered in Cambridge, MA, USA.

### Where does Eka Robotics operate robots?

Eka Robotics is a robot manufacturer and does not directly operate deployments on the DEPLOY registry. Its products are deployed by customer operators; see the company page for the verified deployment record.

### When was Eka Robotics founded?

Eka Robotics was founded in 2025.


## Sources (3)

1. https://www.wired.com/story/when-robots-have-their-chatgpt-moment-remember-these-pincers/
2. https://www.businessinsider.com/investors-to-know-in-robotics-and-physical-ai-2026-6
3. https://app.dealroom.co/companies/eka_robotics

## The verified answers

- [Which companies have the most robots deployed](/which-companies-have-the-most-robots-deployed.md)
- [Which operators run the most robots](/which-operators-run-the-most-robots.md)
- [Which robot operators cover the most countries](/which-robot-operators-cover-the-most-countries.md)

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